Venetic, a. and n.
(vɪˈnɛtɪk)
[f. L. Venet-ī or Venet-ia + -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient Veneti, their country, or their language, or to the modern province of Venice.
| 1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 494/1 The population of the Venetian cities is ‘Venetian’ in language, but the country districts are in various ways Venetic. 1902 Nature 2 Jan. 212/2 Inscriptions on the outside of their rims, said to be in Venetic or old North Etruscan alphabet. 1903 Ibid. 29 Oct. 635 A large admixture of Albanian, Venetic, or Slav intruders. 1922 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XXV. 214 Indiscriminate combinations of letters from the Venetic alphabet. 1949 M. S. Beeler Venetic Lang. 4 That the Venetic alphabet in particular is in fact derived from the Etruscan is now certain. |
B. as n. The language of the ancient Veneti.
| 1904 [see Eteocretan a. and n.]. 1932 [see Messapian n. and a.]. 1977 [see Rhaetic n.]. |